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Category: YOGI (‘Not This-Not That’)

  • Letter from Italy

    Letter from Italy

    This week the BBC (Radio 4: Book of the Week slot ) is inviting people of Italy to write a letter to all of us in Ukania – ‘Dear Derek… (signed) B@’, and more of that kind of thing. It is being called Letter from Italy. Today it is the turn of a 27 year…

  • Radical Tradition: Frank Wedekind (1864 – 1918)

    Radical Tradition: Frank Wedekind (1864 – 1918)

    ‘They stood perplexed in top hats As if around the carcass of a vulture. Bewildered crows. And though they (sweating tears) tried hard, They couldn’t bury this juggler.’ (From the diary of Bertolt Brecht after Wedekind’s funeral at Waldfriedhof cemetry in Munich): an echo of Oswald von Wolkenstein

  • Papa Francesco

        Habemus papam! I don’t know about two naughties. But I guess that you having just been wrapped up in nappies for the last two weeks, naughties just about gets to the point. Naughties must be those little tykes that get to sit on the naughty step. Not together either. Separately. Two steps at…

Categories (2024) are:

  • ATELIER Work – about-creative-work (in all mediums: text-drawing-sounds-image etc)
  • CLIMATE Action – indications-and-contra-indications
  • DAWDLING – walking-pausing-to-wonder-wandering
  • IN Conversation – companionship-and-connections
  • LA Communita –participatory-collaborative-artivism
  • OTHER than Human – animate-and-inanimate-terrestrial-kin
  • PARANOID Readings – violence-and-fundamental-perversions
  • POLITICAL Readings – mobilisations-affect-polarisations
  • REPARATIVE Readings – inspiring-healing-restorative
  • SHADOW Readings – speculative-and-not-yet-visible-thinking
  • STYLE Readings – scales-and-familiarities
  • TONITE at the Coliseum – live-experiences-performance
  • YOGI (‘Not This-Not That’) – meditation-bhakti-consciousness


Different WORDSTALL Categories in the past supported the mainly experimental personal writing in posts. The previous list of Category headings was: Anti-gravity Surgery / Atelier / Catastrophe Games / Echo Effects / Exodus / Fundamental Perversions / Hitting the Potholes / Holy Fool-Hero / In Conversation / Old Men Traveling / On the Street / Out in the Wilderness / Over and Beyond / Tonite at the Coliseum. Some of these still persist or recur as Tag key-words.

The even earlier Category headings for the walkingtalkingwriting blog (2006-2012) have been forgotten, but can be explored if desired via the long tail of monthly posts for those years here.